Having problems with iplayer on an old imac G5

I am in the same boat. I cannot watch flash videos on the BBC website or on BBC iPlayer, although all other flash videos (YouTube for example) are fine.

For reasons that passeth all understanding, they work with the PPC version of Firefox, called TenFourFoxG5.app, once you have anabled plug-ins, as it does not natively support Flash.

You can download TenFourFoxG5 from here:

http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/

Now for the intersting bit: TenFourFox, like Firefox, does not support most plug-ins. Unless you are prone to headaches (in which case don't) you can read about that here:

http://code.google.com/p/tenfourfox/wiki/PluginsNoLongerSupported

But there is a workaround!

Open TenFourFox and type in the address bar: about:config (no spaces) and click return. This gives you a warning that it might harm the application. Ignore that and click on 'I'll be careful, I promise' and you get the config file that you can edit - with great care.

Look/search (scroll down) for: tenfourfox.plugins.enabled

Set it to true. (Double click it to toggle it)

Now close TenFourFox, open it again, and Flash will now work, as it now uses the plug-ins that Safari has stored.

I am using Flash 10.1.102.64 in TenFourFox and it works just fine.

Sorry to hear that, because it works for me - I just checked.

There is a notice on the BBC iPlayer Help page that after a long time of using Flash 10.1 (ok for PPC Macs), they have now - as of August 2012 - upgraded to Flash 10.2, which PPC Macs cannot upgrade to thanks to the beneficence of the appalling Adobe.

HOWEVER. From someone in these forums, I downloaded a Flash 'hack' which makes your Mac think it's got Flash 11.1. (It isn't, it's just a hack, it's actually still 10.1 but gives out a message pretending to be 11.1). This doesn't work everywhere - it works to play video embedded in Facebook and allows me to play Facebook games, but it doesn't work on Channel 4's 4oD, or ITV Player.

My sister told me she can no longer play iPlayer on her iMac G5, so I had a go with my G4 PB which has the Flash hack. Bingo! I can still use iPlayer. The problem is, I cannot now remember who it was that has the download link for the hack. Perhaps do a search for Flash Player here and see if it comes up?

I did the search and found it myself : here is the link and the information :

Download this http://www.steelbin.com/FPforFBPPC.zip to your desktop, unzip it, and replace the current Flash Player plug-in which is in your main/Library/Internet Plug-Ins folder, (not the user Library). Save the old one just in case this one doesn't work.